Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Spam is one of our major problem, but also the Internet is becoming more and more commercial. The main idea of the Internet meaning is starting to vanish and more and more companies are starting to be selective with what you should see and what not. The meaning of Internet it was to be an open platform where everyone can share through their websites and no one should censorship your ideas. Some restrictions should apply, but only in case of child pornography, spam and other terrible things. Starting censorship internet is like someone is denying your free spech right.

Humanity Lobotomy is a mini documentary showing us what to expect and what is wrong right now:

The creators for the documentary are the guys from http://www.indiegogo.com/Humanity-Lobotomy

Another good site what is talking about Net Neutrality is http://www.savetheinternet.com/. There you will find a spech with Barack Obama about Net Neutrality.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

We already know about the deal between Rackable and SGI from 1 month ago: Rackable purchased SGI for 42.5 million. SGI was very close to a banckrupt and Rackable get SGI for a GOOD price. Now Rackable will use SGI name for their products: high-performance products for medium- and large-scale data centers and high-performance computing.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

From today, 5 may 2009, Windows 7 Release Candidate , the new test stable version, will be free until June 2010. This version will be a full one without any limitation. You can get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 and also you can get the serial for this version. One of the most expected features of windows 7 will the "XP mode" :) :) :). XP mode will help you to install XP application under Windows 7 (still a crap).

Saturday, May 2, 2009

The Apache Derby project announce a new GA feature release of Derby, 10.5.1.1. Derby is a pure Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL andJDBC standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with and not for enterprise applications.

Features of the new version:

SQL Roles - as described in SQL 2003 and errataGenerated ColumnsStandard ALTER COLUMN syntaxSYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_UPDATE_STATISTICSLOB ImprovementsReplication of encrypted databasesOFFSET/FETCH FIRST - SQL 2008 has added new syntaxIn-Memory back end

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Linux Foundation started a contest for the best ad promoting Linux. Participants should do the ad in maximum 60 seconds and they need to promote I'm Linux. Was no requirement to mention Apple or Windows. And this ad was not for free. The winner get a free trip to tokyo to participate in the Linux Foundational Japan Linux Symposium.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

In last years it seams the Gnome have some "lack of vision" and is not impressioning the desktop Industry with anything in the last years. In the same time Kde is releasing version after version each of them with a lot of eye candy, performance, and translations.

Gnome has been choose d the default desktop management for Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and soon they will release version 3.0 . It seems the new version 3.0 it will "revamping the user experience."

Monday, April 6, 2009

Last week Computerworld featured an twist gallery of the twenty five universal activate birth releases of the road year, including OpenOffice.org 3.1. The slide notes, "OpenOffice.org 3.1 adds a bunch of new features that make it ever-more-similar to (maybe even better than) You-Know-Who's office suite, from notes in the margin (that you can comment on) to better drag-and-drop for graphics objects. You can download the developer build and decide for yourself."

Dmitri Popov from Linux Magazine expectant readers that they did not have to be an expert to work out modern with OpenOffice's Basic programming interface. "This is for OpenOffice.org comes with its take Basic-based programming language," he said. Dmitri augmented that although OpenOffice Basic was not the most difficult programming language, it still required some time and effort, especially for non-programmers. In his article, Dmitri aimed at providing a few pointers and code snippets to readers, so that they could put OpenOffice Basic to some practical use without learning the language from scratch.

In a E-Commerce Times career suggesting expense rimy measures around the office, Dana Gardner and a panel of experts recommended the account of OpenOffice as they believed MS Office to be a "big oversize cow that right-hand to be sacrificed." They propagated the assistance of open source solutions like OpenOffice and StarOffice that would "go a long, long way toward saving money."

This is was an mainframe class throughput, but now is happening with the HP ProLiant DL785,who can server 8 AMD Opteron processors. Fusion-io, using fio benchmark, achieved more thna 1,000,000 IOPS and that is happening on x86 class servers and not on a mainframe.

As an HP customer it means that you have platforms that can handle your most demanding enterprise applications. And you can be confident that the engineering know-how that helped reach this unprecedented level of performance in an 8P system also helps drive outstanding levels of performance in the ProLiant BladeSystems as well.

I think everybody remember about Microsoft suit over the FAT patent. TomTom (the GPS manufacturer ) was sued because they use FAT as filesystem for their external storages (SD cards etc). Now is time for payback ... TomTom sues Microsoft for infringement of four patents in Microsoft Streets and Trips. Until now the real question was: The Microsoft are targeting Linux through TomTom? I hope not, but probably TomTom and Microsoft will shake their hands together ... it's just business after all.

Are a lot of rumors on internet right now and is possible to be the witness at one of the biggest deals in Computer industry: IBM will buy SUN. Sun started decline in is hardware department but is increasing every day in Open Source world. IBM can save SUN and can monetize what SUN builds.

Any transaction would strengthen IBM's position against rival H-P. It could be the largest acquisition in IBM's history, surpassing the acquisition of Cognos Inc. last year.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I think, everyone from Linux industry, knows about kexec (fast rebooting … actually not rebooting just switching kernels) or Pannus (live kernel patching, but right now the project is dead) and their use. The Linux community started very earlier to think at a method to switch or patch a live kernel ...

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

What is Recovery Act of 2009? Is a set of measures to increase energy efficiency in the U.S.A (but is better for every one to do that). I found a post from AMD blog: http://blogs.amd.com/work/2009/03/11/energy-efficiency-a-little-can-go-a-long-way/ about this problem. So the main idea is: get new pc's wit more energy efficient cpu's and graphics cards. The example found it on AMD blog post is a very good one: airports. Just read the post and you will understand the problem.

Anyway did you know ATI-Fire pro can be used with 4 monitors in the same time ?

Thursday, March 5, 2009

It started 3 years ago when someone post several reasons "Why Windows is better than Linux" ... after that they never stoped ... in flame :)

Anyway the reasons why the windows is better then linux are:

1. installing programs is easy ( is easy as apt-get install program )2. Anytime you try to install or change something on your own computer you have to type a password. (this is why in linux are so few accidental security flaws)3. Installing anything good in Linux requires an entire weekend ending up in learning how to reinvent the wheel. (hmmmm ... Yes is true ... linux is user friendly ... but is selective with his friends )4. To truly use any Linux distribution your going to have to either take classes in how Linux works or spend time reading a lot of books and forums. (Is true if you use it as a enterprise server :) )

I can't stop to comment on his "stupid" arguments. Anyway I think someone from Linux community is made that just to start the flame :)

Monday, February 9, 2009

This time are not software bugs and real mosquito's bugs. That happened on a TED conference where Gates was talking about mosquito, malaria and the other problems in country's with poor medical assistance. Anyway the mosquito's was malaria-free and no other incident was reported.

VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing the client for non-x86 devices using operating systems other than Windows XP or Linux.

VMware View(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) ), allows to host Windows virtual desktops controlled by View Manager inside datacenters making them available to thin clients running on a large variety of devices from any location. What is really missing from this VDI is the client for MAC and other platforms, so probably this will speed up development for this platforms.

You can get the sources from Google code site. The sources are licensed unde LGPL v2.1 .

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Brian Rakowski, Chrome's product manager, wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up. It seems both version (Mac and Linux) are in the same stage of development and soon we will have some beta's.

"That team now is able to render most Web pages pretty well. But in terms of the user experience, it's very basic,"

Now there are three Chrome development trunks: stable, beta, and developer preview.